Tuesday, May 10, 2016

TUESDAY CHAT

Sunday was Mother's Day and Phil and I drove up to daughter and son-in-law's place for afternoon tea. Two granddaughters and 3 great-granddaughters were also there so the two men were outnumbered 6 to 2. (C told us her hubby was sick at home with man flu...her words not mine).
We had coffee and scones and cake and it was quite a delightful few hours. G/daughter A and I lamented the fact that our football team is not doing well this year but most of the talk was lots of fun. K+B gave me a frangipani plant so now I have 9 of them. We gave her a Bunnings voucher as she is always buying something for their garden and, of course, she has a much larger frangipani collection than I have.

Over the weekend I sat and read what I had posted on Saturday and then chatted with Phil about it all.
We both talked about things past and how fortunate we both were to have been together for so long and have such great memories of past events in both our lives.

It was then we realised how many people never made it to a great age and in other cases, because of illness or accident, those that did continue to live were unable to partake of, and enjoy, many of the past-times we took for granted.

Yes, we are indeed fortunate. We will never be wealthy as far as money is concerned but money doesn't make for happiness and neither of us goes in much for material possessions to any extent. No, our happiness is in having each other, our little family and, even though our health is not wonderful, we can still both hear (reasonably well), see, talk, walk (well, Phil can anyway) and get on with our daily lives, albeit slowly.

I feel it did me good to get off my chest all I said on Saturday so I beg your forgiveness in posting what may have sounded a list of grumbles. Old people do that at times when feeling frustrated at their restrictions, so you have to tolerate them the best way you can.

While all this was going on EC sent me a wonderful email featuring a 91 year old woman and it was quite inspiring. I feel she has an advantage over me as she is a poet but that shouldn't make a difference as we must accept ourselves for what we are. The website is
https://www.facebook.com/newshour/videos/10154180279098675/ Whether you will be able to access this website I have no idea but it is well worth the effort. (River...I will email it to you as I am sure you will enjoy it. It is only quite short so not time consuming.)

Oh Mimsie ..... you are perfect just the way you are. We can't all be poets. I will check the web site out. What a lovey gift from your daughter. Frangipani's are so special. That is an Hawaiian one if I remember rightly. Very pretty.

Hari OMI don't thank any of us thought less of you Mimsie - quite the opposite in fact. Indeed, I find that blogging is one of the great ways of working through my thoughts and helping to get things into perspective! That was a great little link!

...and that frangipani looks to be a fine one. Glad you had such good company for mum's day. YAM xx

As said above to EC, I definitely feel much better and particularly so when I get such great support from my blogging friends.Actually I have to be honest; that is not the plant K gave me but Madison White does ave white flowers so sort of the right one. xx

Thank you so much for the email. What a wonderful old lady. Something for me to aim for, being 91. my old mother in law is 91 now too, and being well cared for by most of her family who live in the same town.posting a list of grumbles is fine with us, if you can't get it off your chest here, where you have friends, then where can you?

I thought you would enjoy listening to that fine old lady.You said the other day your m-in-law was 91. Years and years ago I always said I would live to be 95. I wonder should I still aim for that goal?All my close friends have been gone some years now and poor Phil has to put up with me 24/7 and family are too busy so I don't bother them too much. K knows the problems I have and she understands.

About Me

I am 85 years of age, having been born in 1932. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a bit of an all round twit. Over the years I have done quite a lot of family genealogy and unearthed some family secrets which has been great fun.
I am married with a great husband (second time around has worked for me); I have a daughter and a son, four granddaughters and two grandsons, and three fantastic great-granddaughters plus a lovely step-great-granddaughter in Alaska whom I have never met although I have seen her on Skype. I have had two total hip replacements (June '08 and January '09) but as I have an extremely bad back (neck to tail) and a knee that won't behave, I still can't get about very much so am a stay at home. Maybe that is why I decided to take this drastic step and begin my own blog. Will I keep it up? Goodness alone knows, only time will tell but here goes anyway. I don't have a lot of followers but those I do have are very precious to me.